Word: processional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Behind the open-air theater, fireworks prick the sky with pinpoints of light. Onstage a red-coated marching band, followed by men in stovepipe hats and women lofting VOTE signs, winds through a procession of patriotic floats. A Model T Ford chugs in from the wings. Behind the wheel sits...
Police had declared they were "ready for anything" and would stop the procession. But the crowd broke through a police line and surged forward, waving placards and singing freedom songs. "We are marching, not fighting," some shouted, making peace signs; others raised clenched fists.
Based on an autobiographical book by Clarence Day Jr., the play chronicles the domestic mishaps of one Victorian family with a light humor. Clarence Sr. is a bull-headed Wall Street man who presides over his well-trained household with an almost military authority. His insensitive tirades send everyone from...
The film shows a healthy, handsome and cheerful people organized as a matrilineal society under tribal chiefs, or "Gran Men." Their laws and customs date back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that...
Understandably, the experience has in stilled in Konig a morbid determinism that makes the Goncourt brothers look like Harpo and Chico Marx: "Gone now are February and March, season of drowned men, when ice on the frozen rivers melts, yielding up the winter's harvest of junkies, itinerants and...